In this break out you will learn how easy it is to deploy and manage Microsoft Server Hyper-V 2012 and Microsoft Server 2012 on Cisco UCS.

In this break out you will learn how simple it is to deploy and manage your VMware virtual environment on Cisco UCS. We will cover features like Autodeploy, stateless computing and also sizing guidelines which include CPU and memory.

In this break out you will learn all the best practices on deploying Oracle on various hypervisors including VMware and Oracle virtual machine (OVM) on UCS and also best practices for Deploying Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) on UCS.

This session features a detailed analysis of the architectural aspects, implementation details and deployment benefits behind Overlay Transport Virtualisation (OTV) technology. The attendees will learn how OTV, an industry first solution, significantly simplifies Data Centre Interconnect (DCI) deployments by extending Ethernet LANs between multiple sites over any network, making multiple Data Centres look like one logical Data Centre. The attendees will learn how OTV is aimed at providing Layer 2 connectivity beyond the Layer 3 boundary while maintaining the scalability, failure containment and operational simplicity that the Layer 3 boundary provides. OTV involves foundational changes to the learning and forwarding principles of traditional VPN technologies. OTV is a "MAC in IP" technology where the MAC address reachability information is conveyed in a control protocol. The OTV architecture is discussed in detail, giving the attendee a clear understanding of the technical aspects of the technology. The multiple benefits achieved by OTV are discussed in detail during the session.

The desire for segmentation in the network is increasing at a rapid pace. Network virtualisation using L2/L3 segmentation solutions maximises network hardware, by logically separating organisations, on the same physical hardware, greatly reducing cost and operational complexity. Multi-tenant compute environments in the Data Centre, traffic separation for security purposes and/or internal organisational separation are some of the key drivers for extending logical network separation over the campus and the WAN. This session will address LAN and WAN virtualisation from a network view at Layer 3, discussing the building blocks, available options, and challenges when implementing IP network virtualisation over the LAN, and specifically the multitude of various WAN technologies and transport offerings from service providers.

In-depth topics include extending VRFs over the various transport options, including 802.1Q, MPLS, and specific to the WAN, VRF-Lite and MPLS.

The evolving complexity of the Data Centre is placing increased demand on the network and security teams to come up with inventive methods for enforcing security policies in these ever-changing environments. The goal of this session is to provide participants with an understanding of features and design recommendations for integrating security into the Data Centre environment. This session will focus on recommendations for securing next-generation Data Centre architectures. Areas of focus include security services integration, leveraging device virtualisation, and considerations and recommendations for server virtualisation. Design and implementation highlights for a typical Enterprise Data Centre scenario will be presented as a case study.

This intermediate level session will discuss the fundamentals of Designing a virtual UC solution on UCS and non-UCS 3rd party platform. It will be based on UC 8.6. This session is a high level overview of the solution and won't go into the details of each and every topic. Attendees are encourage to attend the UC on UCS Techtorial for detailed discussion. Also, if you are attending this session then you don't need to attend BRKUCC-2782 and vice versa. Content of this and BRKUCC-2782 session are identical.

Enterprises are looking towards a desktop virtualisation strategy which combines the desktop, Unified Communications, and application integration to enhance the collaboration and productivity of employees. They desire to understand how Cisco Virtualisation Experience Clients (VXC) are utilised within a collaboration deployment, and how best to deploy an integrated virtual desktop (VDI) solution with voice and video. This session will focus on the various Virtualisation Experience Clients from Cisco, how to manage them, which endpoint is correct for your deployment, and best practices for deployment. This session is intended for network administrators, network architects, network designers, system integrators, application developers. A basic understanding of Unified Communications is a prerequisite.

Cisco Virtualisation Experience Infrastructure (VXI) is an end-to-end validated desktop virtualisation system that crosses several Cisco Architectures (Borderless Networks, Data Centre/Virtualisation and Unified Communications/Collaboration), and integrates Cisco and 3rd party components in an open ecosystem delivering a differentiated and optimised user experience. Cisco VXI Includes Cisco and Cisco Technology Partners products that solve current challenges with deploying Desktop Virtualisation. This session will describe what VXI is and explain the challenges with Desktop Virtualisation and how they are solved. The focus of this session is on both the non-technical and technical aspects of the VXI system.

Server Virtualisation is changing the way Data Centres have been designed and deployed. This session will discuss the impact of server virtualisation when deploying services like firewall, load balancing or WAN and application optimisation services. We will discuss the concept of vPath and how the service enforcement is taking place by vPath. The session will introduce virtual service capabilities including the Nexus 1000V Virtual Security Gateway (VSG), ASA1000v and vWAAS, purpose built for the virtualised environment. Closely related to this session are the sessions: BRKVIR-2012: Inside the Nexus 1000V Virtual Switch and BRKVIR-3013: Deploying and Troubleshooting the Nexus 1000v virtual switch on vSphere.

The recent trend of virtualising servers has a huge impact on the underlying network. Computers are no longer physical, immovable objects that plug nicely into your network switches and remain for a while; they are transient creations that can come and go in the blink of an eye. And it's not stopping there... With a virtual distributed switch we restore network visibility to the boundary of the virtual machine, not just to the boundary of the physical host that runs the hypervisor. Bringing the complete feature set of networking to a massively virtualised Data Centre requires some new design concepts. This session describes the Nexus 1000v from a development point of view. It describes the design challenges and why we made certain implementation decisions. At the end of the session you will have a good understanding of what the Nexus 1000v virtual switch adds to your network and how it is designed. This deep understanding will help you to make the right deployment decisions when you implement the technology in your own environment.

Virtualisation is here to stay, creating, moving and destroying not only individual virtual machines within a Data Centre, but deploying whole groups of VMs for different tenants, in different locations, and on different hypervisors. With supporting these goals in mind, Cisco has worked with Microsoft to support the Nexus 1000V on the next-generation Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V platform, complete with support for SC-VMM fabric networks, virtual machine networks, and of course port profiles. This session will describe what Nexus 1000V on Hyper-V will look like, what's different from Nexus 1000V on VMware, and the new functionality it brings to the table for Microsoft users. At the end of the session you will have a good understanding of what the Nexus 1000v virtual switch adds to your Microsoft Hyper-V network and how it is designed. This deep understanding will help you to make the right deployment decisions when you implement the technology in your own environment.

Virtualisation has been an integral part of IT planning for effective resource optimisation, management simplification and isolation on Data Centres. Because virtualisation touches multiple layers in the Data Centre, understanding the full scope of virtualisation technologies is required for effective planning, design and deployments. The effects are applicable to Classical Ethernet, Data Centre Bridging, Unified IO, Unified Computing, servers of multiple types, hypervisors, virtual machines, virtual switches, virtualised adapters, virtual service nodes, storage, fibre-channel, services and transport environments which taken collectively require in-depth understanding for an end-to-end strategy. This session approaches this by inviting you to a "journey" inside an end-to-end virtualised Data Centre infrastructure. This journey will take "a day in the life" approach starting from the Data Centre Core layer towards the storage on the back-end, being all the infrastructure in between fully virtualised.